An interesting premise, but there's a currently rogue purple sock of concern in the whites-only wash of potential. Namely, that all this gloom and doom doesn't quite have the same wide-reaching appeal and lofty scope as the bright environs of City Of Heroes. COV is quite definitely not a sequel, more a re-imagining of the original, the Star Trek mirror universe of super-powered MMOs. Playing these early levels with each of the different villainous archetypes, we were slightly disappointed to see that the path of progression was the same whatever type of criminal powersets we boasted.